Shame (1932)
November 7, 1932Release Date
Shame (1932)
November 7, 1932Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Vladimir Gardin
Babchenko
Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina
Babchikha
Tatyana Guretskaya
Katya
Andrei Abrikosov
Pavel
Boris Tenin
Vasya
Boris Poslavsky
Skvorzov
Mariya Pototskaya
Ego mat (as M. Pototskaya)
Leonid Alekseev
Direktor zavoda (as A. Alekseev)
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Release DateNovember 7, 1932
Original NameВстречный
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
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Counterplan (Russian: Встречный, romanized: Vstrechnyy) is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film's title song, "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich with lyrics by the poet Boris Kornilov, became world famous. Shostakovich's composition, with new lyrics by Jeanne Perret, would be used shortly after in the notable song of the French socialist movement, "Au-devant de la vie".Shostakovich was to use the piece again in his Poem of the Motherland (1947), another film entitled Mitchurin (1948) and his 1958 operetta Moscow, Cheremushki!. In 1942 the song was given English words by Harold J. Rome under the title "United Nations on the March" and in this guise it was featured as the choral finale to MGM's patriotic war-time musical Thousands Cheer (1943). That same year, Leopold Stokowski made an orchestral arrangement of the song and this was given the title "United Nations March".
This film could be considered a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory.